UKLO = UK Linguistics Olympiad

Welcome to UKLO! We run an annual competition in which school children solve problems based on real languages. It’s a test of skill and insight, not of how well you know the language – indeed, most of the languages are languages you’ve never heard of. The challenge in every case is to work out how the language concerned works – in other words, you have to crack the code.

This website is for several kinds of people:

• teachers | this year’s timetable
• competitors
• volunteer markers
• university staff

The website also allows you to do various things:

• to register as a new user (i.e. as a teacher or a marker)
• to use the portal (where teaches will download the papers, among other things)
• to find past problems
• to admire our results at the IOL (the international competition)
• to donate money to the UKLO charity